The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question - not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.