The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

The Jabalites .... They worship no god; and if we in goodness of heart do send a missionary to show them the way of life, they listen with respect to all he hath to say, and then they eat him. This doth tend to hinder the spread of light.

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

More men go to church than want to.

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain