It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle.