What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.