Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.

It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.

I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .