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.

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.