A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.