All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either [Satan] or God will say "mine" of each thing that exists, and specially of each man.

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

Laziness means more work in the long run.

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.