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

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.

Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge - that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit that all have equal rights; when thought is untrammeled; when worship shall consist in doing useful things; when religion means the discharge of obligations to our fellow-men, then, and not until then, will the world be civilized.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'