There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

Death is only perfect rest.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.