Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.
We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
We rise by lifting others.
The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
We have a high standard of living. . . . In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.
Don't you dare try to apologize. " His voice shakes. "This is not something you can bandage with a word or two and some hugging, or something.