“All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”

“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”

“Avem intotdeauna tendinta sa atribuim propriile noastre defecte si celorlalti.”

“Today alcohol and tobacco are available, and people spend considerably more on these very unsatisfactory euphorics, pseudo-stimulants and sedatives than they are ready to spend on the education of their children.”

“And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”

“Christianity without tears—that's what soma is.”

“Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers; and only someone with a mind like Shelley's can write Prometheus Unbound. The deliberate forger has little chance with his contemporaries and none at all with posterity.”