Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.