The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.