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

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

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

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.