I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.