I have no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my reason; no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my heart; and, no matter how old it is, no matter how many have believed it, no matter how many have died on account of it, no matter how many live for it, I have no reverence for that book, and I am glad of it.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.