Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
Most people are other people.
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.