What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.