Beware of long arguments and long beards.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.

A simple life is its own reward.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.