There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.

If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion