Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.