Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.