Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

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.

The first duty of any Christian is to know God and the wisdom of His Word to the utmost

Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.

Change is the constant the signal for rebirth the egg of the phoenix.

What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

A woman in love is helpless.

Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.