If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.