Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

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.

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.