Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.