It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.