A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.