Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.