“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.”

“Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.”

“Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. -”

“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned to-morrow; there is not any literary reputation, not the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manner and morals of mankind, are all at the mercy of a new generalization. Generalization is always a new influx of the divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.”

“The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.”

“It is said to be the age of the first person singular”

“The sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.”