None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.