The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

Love your friends and be just to your enemies.

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.

For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.