Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe.

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection