No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man