“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”
“Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.”
“I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.”
“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.”
“Of all the things I had learned in my life, nothing was so simple as fanatics imagined.”
“If there's one thing I can't abide it's fanatics of any kind, and religious ones are the worst of all.”