Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.

I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.