Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination ?

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters .

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.