Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

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.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.