All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.