To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

Intelligence is the only moral guide.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.