I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.