Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.