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

Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.

Nothing but truth is immortal.

It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?