It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free its…

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely.…

It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs the other might as well be on drugs.

I believe in the religion of reason - the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth, to the end that man…

You see, if you say something positive like the whole of life - all living things - is descended from a single common ancestor which lived about 4,000 million …