Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

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

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.