Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

The victory's in believing.