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.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

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

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.