It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.