The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.