Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

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

Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .