Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

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

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.