I was with book, as a woman is with child.

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic legend drably disguised as text-book fact. With this creeps in the tacit assumption that other nations have not equally their heroes; perhaps even the belief - surely it is very bad biology - that we can literally 'inherit' tradition.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us.