Worry is a form of fear.

[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the gospel to pumpkin pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages receive with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion for a few brief moments that it is better to be alive than dead.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.