Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

The beginning is the promise of the end.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.