The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'