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

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there are certain ideas upon certain subjects that they must never express; that they must go through life with a pretence as a shield; that their neighbors will think much more of them if they will only keep still; and that above all is a God who despises one who honestly expresses what he believes.

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.

When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust.