Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.