How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.