Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

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.

Plato was right, but not quite right.

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.