I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.

All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of Perpetual Youth - the only rainbow on life's dark cloud.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

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