The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.