Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

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

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.