If indeed there were a judgment-day, it would be for man to appear at the bar not as a criminal but as accuser. - William Winwood Reade

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

What a state of society is this in which free-thinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies rather than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents.