Who said “Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.”?

“He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).”

“Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''”

“Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?”

“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at least in the sense of this work -- is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”

“I am a daylight atheist.”

“Men are blind in their own cause.”

“Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.”

“Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.”

“A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.”

“A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.”

“Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!”