All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not enough...I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee. More gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog.