Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea.

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.