I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.