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

If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.

I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left out the commandment about keeping the Sabbath, and in its place would have said: "Thou shalt not enslave thy fellow-men." He would have omitted the one about swearing, and said: "The man shall have but one wife, and the woman but one husband." He would have left out the one about graven images, and in its stead would have said: "Thou shalt not wage wars of extermination, and thou shalt not unsheathe the sword except in self-defence.