We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved - cursed, not worshiped. A heaven presided over by such a God must be below the lowest hell.

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.