He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.