The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.