For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

Every library is an arsenal.

The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses or lands - more important than art or science - more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.