The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.