All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.

I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god.

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anonymous letters; I take the testimony of those who knew and loved him, of those to whom he opened his heart and to whom he spoke in the freedom of perfect confidence.

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.