Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

Every library is an arsenal.

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

The way to be happy is to make others so.