Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left out the commandment about keeping the Sabbath, and in its place would have said: "Thou shalt not enslave thy fellow-men." He would have omitted the one about swearing, and said: "The man shall have but one wife, and the woman but one husband." He would have left out the one about graven images, and in its stead would have said: "Thou shalt not wage wars of extermination, and thou shalt not unsheathe the sword except in self-defence.

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.