I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.