Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in fact to say that we do not know. Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

The way to be happy is to make others so.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.