Only poor men get hanged.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know toward what you are rising. Unless there is a standard you cannot tell whether you are rising or falling. But the main point is that the Fall like every other large path of Christianity is embodied in the common language talked on the top of an omnibus. Anybody might say, "Very few men are really Manly." Nobody would say, "Very few whales are really whaley."

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.