The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.