When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.