The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.