The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

There is no bigot like the atheist.

Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.