Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.