Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.