A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.