With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

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.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.