Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

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.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.