Atheism is the last word of theism

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

Atheism is the last word of theism

Every woman is the gift of a world to me.

The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.