An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

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

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

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

Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.

Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.