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.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure and vague. The hunger of the heart finds only a few small and scattered crumbs. There is nothing definite, solid, and satisfying. United with the idea of immortality we find the absurdity of the resurrection. A prophecy that depends for its fulfillment upon an impossibility, cannot satisfy the brain or heart.

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.