Cruelty is the only sin.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.

In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!

you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.