A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the heart of a wild beast, can believe in eternal punishment.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.