"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains."

"He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical."

"I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals..."

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."

"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."

"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."

"To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."

"I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days."

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."