Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
The best prescription is knowledge.
Life itself is a quotation.
Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God by organizing together as a community to do good. Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.
The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences our consumer tastes and our preference for high-paying jobs, but it also alters our capacity to pray, the nature of our prayers, and the ways in which religious tutelage instructs our values.