The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.