What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.