I will jump into the river to save two brothers or eight cousins.

Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

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.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

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.