Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

France has usually been governed by prostitutes

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.

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.

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.