“I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Mark Twain
“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.”
“If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.”
“God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."”
