But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

There is no bigot like the atheist.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.