Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.