A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.