No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.

Intelligence is the only moral guide.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.