All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.