When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.