My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.

The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

Commerce is the great civilizer.