Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

That's what this country needs -- more books!

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.