"O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music! Bend to me, be tender. I am blind and …"

"I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? — To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!"

"If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth."

"You I admire as being more, — much more — a man, and more believer too, than half the canting orthodox."

"It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay …"

"There are a few of us — madmen all! — who are in love with knowing, who would sell the last shirt from our backs for …"

"Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!"

"I'm a Nolan. I could dazzle you in dialect, because the words do not make the same sense to different men."

"Who said to me, a foetus in the womb, a puling babe, "You have your life, but on the condition that you thus believe?…"

"To make that long, last donkey-ride between the pikeman and the stake, to hear the shouting and the chant of hypocrit…"