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

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

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