Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent that science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of science.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we are not to have in the other world. We are to be so taken up with Jesus and angels, that we shall care nothing about our brothers and sisters that have been damned. We shall be so carried away with the music of the harp that we shall not even hear the wail of father and mother. Such a religion is a disgrace to human nature.

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.