If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the heart of a wild beast, can believe in eternal punishment.

The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.