There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.