Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.