I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be.

I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.