Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?

As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.