It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?