If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarded the virtuous and punished the wicked, is gradually fading from the mind. We know that some of the worst men have what the world calls success. We know that some of the best men lie upon the straw of failure. We know that honesty goes hungry, while larceny sits at the banquet. We know that the vicious have every physical comfort, while the virtuous are often clad in rags.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.