The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.

Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.