The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.

I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.