Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.

When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.