In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

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

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.