And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in fact to say that we do not know. Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things.

The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.