I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that's taken my tomorrow, and turned them into yesterday.

Forget to complain

When I pass the bar, you'll be barred from bars but put behind them.

Hell is everything. Heaven is nothing.

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character.

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.