If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.

Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What’s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.