Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these words should be written: "Here sleeps the only man in the history of the world who, having been clothed with almost absolute power, never abused it, except upon the side of mercy."

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.

It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?