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

And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.