I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, -- some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.

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."

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.