Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.