We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.