We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.