A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power.

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.

They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.