It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.