“An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.”

If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.

The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn’t felt it go away, as if he’d known the best moment to let go.

Even the solitude, I’ve actually grown to quite like. I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I’ll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.

Love is a job doer and a man slayer. Both equally efficient, until the taste of it is most felt on the cold side of the ribs.

I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.