The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?

Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.

It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.