With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.