I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.