"What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!" ― Sydney Smith Topic(s): Religion More From Sydney Smith "Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect." "Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence." "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them." More In Religion "No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion."― Abdul Kalam "We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit."― William Robertson Smith "Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments."― Christopher Hitchens