And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.