"When suave politeness, temp'ring bigot zeal Corrected I believe to One does feel."

"There once was a man who said: "God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When the…"

"Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny."

"It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it."

"The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had no…"

"Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning,…"

"Words are living things, full of shades of meaning, full of associations; and, what is more, they are apt to change t…"

"It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is…"

"All these riches, then, of her theology the Church has acquired, one might almost say, like the British Empire, in a …"

"If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism."