Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

The triumph of justice is the only peace.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.