The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand.

Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

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