We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.