Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.