No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.