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

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

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

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.