The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.