God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday; second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow; third, enjoy today.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who speaks-who exercises a right that he, by his speech, denies. Can liberty go further than that? Is there any toleration possible beyond the liberty to speak against liberty-the real believer in free speech allowing others to speak against the right to speak?

Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.