Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.