Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions.

The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times.

Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.

It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

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