In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.