Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.

Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.

If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount read more

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory read more

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Don't be an agnostic--be something.

Don't be an agnostic--be something.