Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.

Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.