Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

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

In my judgment, the Deists were all successfully answered. The god of nature is certainly as bad as the God of the Old Testament. It is only when we discard the idea of a deity, the idea of cruelty or goodness in nature, that we are able ever to bear with patience the ills of life. I feel that I am neither a favorite nor a victim. Nature neither loves nor hates me.

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the founder of Christianity had plainly said: 'It is not necessary to believe in order to be saved; it is only necessary to do, and he who really loves his fellow-men, who is kind, honest, just and charitable, is to be forever blest' - if he had only said that, there would probably have been but little persecution.