“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”

“The most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love.”

“Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, ‘I do not understand,’ it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat ‘You do not understand.’ And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding.”

“For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.”

“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”

“For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”