Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Fear is religion, courage is science.

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.

I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, - blown and flared by passion's storm, - and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.