It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.