It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.

I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.