"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"Religion is pickled God."

"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom"

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people."

"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."

"Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed."

"As a USENET discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

"A scholar is the favorite of Heaven and of earth; The excellence of one's country, The happiest of mankind."