We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.