It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.