All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.