The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

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.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

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.