The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.