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

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.

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

Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.