People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

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

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.