“The ignorant pronounce it FroodTo cavil or applaudThe well-informed pronounce it FroydBut I pronounce it Fraud.”

“Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.”

“this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.”

“Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.”

“But anyhow it is true that this, which is our first poem, might very well be our last poem too. It might well be the last word as well as the first word spoken by man about his mortal lot, as seen by merely mortal vision. If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.”

“Does it never strike you that doubt can be a madness, as well as faith? That asking questions may be a disease, as well as proclaiming doctrines? You talk of religious mania! Is there no such thing as irreligious mania?”