How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.