If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality.