Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.

I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.

The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.