The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical processes going on in my brain, they are determined by the laws of chemistry, not those of logic.

The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.