Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure and vague. The hunger of the heart finds only a few small and scattered crumbs. There is nothing definite, solid, and satisfying. United with the idea of immortality we find the absurdity of the resurrection. A prophecy that depends for its fulfillment upon an impossibility, cannot satisfy the brain or heart.