Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the little boys and girls learn is to be righteous and holy and not piss against the wall. They study those passages more than they study any others, except those which incite to masturbation. Those they hunt out and study in private.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.