All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.