What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.
The real pleasure of one’s life is the devotion to a great objective of one’s consideration.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
It is easy – terribly easy – to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
To be a champion you must live like one.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.