I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.

No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find some person that you are willing to do something for, find a good dog and take care of him. You have no idea how much better you will feel.

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.