Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.