If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.