If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

His laughter tinkled among the teacups.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.