He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.