For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

There is no bigot like the atheist.

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted; but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself.