It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

It is your human environment that makes climate

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.