Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in fact to say that we do not know. Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

Death is only perfect rest.