Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.

A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE