Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.