We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.