It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination

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

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.