One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.