Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

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.

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.