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

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?

The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.