All religion is slavery.

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.

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.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.