“A Puritan is not against bullfighting because of the pain it gives the bull, but because of the pleasure it gives the spectators.”

“Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity—he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of the weak and timorous against the strong and enterprising, of the botched against the fit.”

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

“Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.”

“The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.”

“I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved, which a cow enjoys on giving milk.”

“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”