The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

All gods are better than their reputation.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.