Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.