Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.