So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

Strange is the man who practices his religion.