Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.