Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.

If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!