It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?