The goal of evolution is self - conquest

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.

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

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.