So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these words should be written: "Here sleeps the only man in the history of the world who, having been clothed with almost absolute power, never abused it, except upon the side of mercy."

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Fear is religion, courage is science.