In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not be any more soothing. It might be rather more creepy and uncanny.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.