I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

Life is the game that must be played.

Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.