Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.