The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

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

The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.