Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved - cursed, not worshiped. A heaven presided over by such a God must be below the lowest hell.

There is no slavery but ignorance.