Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?