To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: "Let us be friends."

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

Love your friends and be just to your enemies.

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.