If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

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.

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.