The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.

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

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.