No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man has a right to desert his children if he can possibly be of use. As long as he can add to the comfort of those he loves, as long as he can . . . be of any use, it is his duty to remain.

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker.

If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever stands between you and justice must give way; and if you have to walk over reputations — and if they become pavement you cannot help it.