If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.