...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.