Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?

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

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.