The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

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

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.

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?