Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.