There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.

Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.