On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?

Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden. The businessmen of our country are compelled to lead temperate lives, otherwise their credit is gone.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.