To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

God created woman to tame man.

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

We only half live when we only half think.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.