Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries. - John Tyndall

[O]f the future form of religion little can be predicted. Its main concern may possibly be to purify, elevate, and brighten the life that now is, instead of treating it as the more or less dismal vestibule of a life that is to come.

The Christian world seethed not only with apocryphal writings, but with hostile interpretations of writings not apocryphal.

It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.