"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."
"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
"God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain."
"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
"Nothing is yet in its true form."