To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

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

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.