Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought. If caustic criticism of religious institutions and practices is irreligious, then Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus were very irreligious men. In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be.

Hard work doesn't harm anyone, but I do not want to take chances.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

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God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man, -- suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death - and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

The one who is not communist till the age of 25 doesn't have heart and the one who is communist after 25 doesn't have brain !.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

Compromise: the art of dividing a cake so that everybody believes he or she got the biggest piece.

Applaud friends, the comedy is over.

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.