Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

I am going to put the Bible out of business.

I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.