The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

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.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.