There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

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.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.