All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of Perpetual Youth - the only rainbow on life's dark cloud.

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.

If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.

Commerce is the great civilizer.

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.