Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.