I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin-a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.