Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.
Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.