Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.