When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain belief is necessary to ensure eternal jo….

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions..

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous..

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring..

It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambitio….

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer..

The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and….

Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated i….

There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered..

I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the tree of knowledge and hooting the hoots that have b….

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in,….

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the en….

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular ….

There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that freedom is the condition of progress;….

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish..

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead th….

On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insan….

The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continu….

There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attain….

I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for . . . the ones you love. It is a bless….

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves..