Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.