Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. ... Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us; it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.