If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.

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

The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.