Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.