The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been satisfied. He no longer cares for the exceptional, the monstrous, the marvelous and deformed. He looks through and beyond the gilding, the glitter and gloss, not only of things, but of conduct, of manners, theories, religions and philosophies. He sees clearer. The light no longer shines in his eyes.

Commerce is the great civilizer.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.