There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.