It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.