Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice..

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable..

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored….

It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the cr….

The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuou….

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman..

To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of o….

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish..

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the car….

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal..

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon a….

As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentle….

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no m….

College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trust….

The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign..

[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and a….

Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, ….

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God..

The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hal….

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility.".

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time..