Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the maligners of his honor.

Meekness is the mask of malice.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

Commerce is the great civilizer.