Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.