The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Intelligence is the only moral guide.

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker.

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.