He pursued this chain of reasoning till his friend was totally
confounded, and cordially acknowledged the absurdity of his notions.

By night an atheist half believes a God.--YOUNG.

No one is so much alone in the world as a denier of God.--RICHTER.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them
that there should be none; and then they endeavor to persuade
themselves so.--TILLOTSON.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and
feeble reasons, of good eating and ill living.--JEREMY COLLIER.

Atheism can benefit no class of people,--neither the unfortunate, whom
it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders
insipid.--CHATEAUBRIAND.


AUTHORITY.--Self-possession is the backbone of authority.--HALIBURTON.

Man, proud man!
Dressed in a little brief authority:
Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd.
His glassy essence--like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,
As make the angels weep.
--SHAKESPEARE.