Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.