"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature"

"The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"

"The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid"

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation"

"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land"

"Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to"

"The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed"

"The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests"

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote"