Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay than they think.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't, you need a gene to be active for it.

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.

So if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

I can't stand accessories.

When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.