In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

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

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.