Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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