One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?