There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.