In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

What lies lurk in kisses.