[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.