Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.