Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.