We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.