The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

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

Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not that man civilized whose reason sits the crowned monarch of his brain - whose passions are his servants?

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

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?

I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'

Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.