Our Generation has had no Great war$$$ no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

The joke is$$$ we all have the same punchline.

The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists$$$ accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and it yet remains to reason and philosophy to abolish the amphibious fraud.

He that is the author of war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

I grabbed a pile of dust$$$ and holding it up$$$ foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust. I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.