When Passion And Habit Long Lie In

Christianity ... Has Produced The Iniquities Of The Inquisition, The Egotism And Celibacy Of The Monasteries, The Fury Of Religious Wars, The Ferocity Of The Hussite, Of The Catholic, Of The Puritan, Of The Spaniard, Of The Irish Orangeman And Of The Irish Papist; It Has Divided Families, Alienated Friends, Lighted The Torch Of Civil War, And Borne The Virgin And The Greybeard To The Burning Pile, Broken Delicate Limbs Upon The Wheel And Wrung The Souls And Bodies Of Innocent Creatures On The Rack; All This It Has Done, And Done In The Name Of God.

A Cruel Story Runs On Wheels, And Every Hand Oils The Wheels As They Run.

Christianity Has Ever Been The Enemy Of Human Love.

A Man May Be A Great Statesman, And Yet Dislike His Wife, And Like Somebody Else's. A Man May Be A Great Hero, And Yet He May Have An Unseemly Passion, Or An Unpaid Tailor. But The British Public Does Not Understand This. ... It Thinks, Unhappily Or Happily As You May Choose To Consider, That Genius Should Keep The Whole Ten Commandments. Now, Genius Is Conspicuous For Breaking Them.

The Fire Of True Enthusiasm Is Like The Fires Of Baku, Which No Water Can Ever Quench, And Which Burn Steadily On From Night To Day, And Year To Year, Because Their Well-spring Is Eternal.