The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.

It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?

I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that crystallization is itself a step toward joy. I love to think that when a bud bursts into blossom: it feels a thrill. I love to have the universe full of feeling and full of joy, and not full of simple dead, inert matter, managed by an old bachelor for all eternity.

As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.