God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.