The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.

Today the intelligence of the world denies the miraculous. Ignorance is the soil of the supernatural. The foundation of Christianity has crumbled, has disappeared, and the entire fabric must fall. The natural is true. The miraculous is false.

Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.