He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.