There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.