The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.

It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

I have no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my reason; no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my heart; and, no matter how old it is, no matter how many have believed it, no matter how many have died on account of it, no matter how many live for it, I have no reverence for that book, and I am glad of it.

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