Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.

Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent that science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of science.

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.