Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man. Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.Joy is wealth.

It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving

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?

Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.