The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.

When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.