God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

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

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.