We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.