Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.