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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.