A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.