The human race is a race of cowards, and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which rightly understood is solitude made perfect.

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