Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of Perpetual Youth - the only rainbow on life's dark cloud.