The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.

The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.

Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake

A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.