If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

It's so damned humiliating.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.