To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.