You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.