No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

Christianity is a fighting religion.

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.