Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

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.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

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