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.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

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 am going to put the Bible out of business.