I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.