Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.

Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.