Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.
He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid
In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
Atheism is the last word of theism
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...