The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker.

The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

I am going to put the Bible out of business.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.