No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

A poet over 30 is pathetic

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he did, then Christianity becomes plausible; if He did not, then it is sheer nonsense. I defy any genuine scientists to say that he believes in the Resurrection, or indeed in any other cardinal dogma of the Christian system.