When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagent womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter! ~ Ch. 3

Good sense from a child was not necessarily contemptible beside foolishness from a grown-up. ~ Ch. 3

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind. ~ Ch. 4

Aaron had learned : from Mr. Fairlow's two-hour sermons on 'The Jealousy of an Angry Jehovah Who Hath Weighed Sinners in the Balance and Found Them Wanting', .…