All government is an ugly necessity.

You can't have the family farm without the family.

Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.