God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.