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A religion that comes of thought and study and deliberate conviction, sticks best. 
~Mark Twain ~

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In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
~ Mark Twain - "Autobiography"~

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Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.
 ~ Mark Twain ~

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It was the most earnest ambition I ever had. Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.
~Mark Twain, a Biography~

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