People will believe what they want to believe

Church: A place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to people who will never get there

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands

But I wonder where we will land if trial Judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts

When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it