We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

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

And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

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.