Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that freedom is the condition of progress; that it is the sunshine of the mental and moral world, and that without it man will go back to the den of savagery, and wll become the fit associate of wild and ferocious beasts.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.