My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.