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.

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

Intelligence is the only moral guide.

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

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.