If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.