If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.