Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man has a right to desert his children if he can possibly be of use. As long as he can add to the comfort of those he loves, as long as he can . . . be of any use, it is his duty to remain.

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.