Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

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.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.