Life and Existence

Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters .

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful '

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.