Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.