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

Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America.

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.