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

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

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.

It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.

The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.