Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.