Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.