The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.

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

Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.

A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.