Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.

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

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

There is no slavery but ignorance.

All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to success; that the desire to acquire great wealth is a kind of insanity. They should be taught that it is a waste of energy, a waste of thought, a waste of life, to acquire what you do not need and what you do not really use for the benefit of yourself or others.

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.