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

Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: "Let us be friends."

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.