A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man can afford to keep the viper of revenge in his heart. But I believe in justice, in self-defense.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.