No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.