Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.