The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.