When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.