We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

A good deed is the best prayer.

The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.

The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is mortal, and the church cannot be afflicted with the same idiot forever. The Protestants have a book for their Pope. The book cannot advance. Year after year, and century after century, the book remains as ignorant as ever.

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.