Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.