Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.

All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.

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