Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.