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

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is mortal, and the church cannot be afflicted with the same idiot forever. The Protestants have a book for their Pope. The book cannot advance. Year after year, and century after century, the book remains as ignorant as ever.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.