The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.