Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.