Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the sons of men. The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future.

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.