There is hardly anything<br> in the world<br> that some man<br> cannot make a little worse<br> cannot make a little cheaper<br> and the people<br> who consider price only<br> are this man’s lawful prey.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you.