You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .