The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in fact to say that we do not know. Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

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.

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.