A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.