To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you will always see the face you love and won. And a woman who really loves a man does not see that he grows old; he is not decrepit to her; she always sees the same gallant gentleman who won her hand and heart.

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.