If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.

He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.

Every library is an arsenal.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we are not to have in the other world. We are to be so taken up with Jesus and angels, that we shall care nothing about our brothers and sisters that have been damned. We shall be so carried away with the music of the harp that we shall not even hear the wail of father and mother. Such a religion is a disgrace to human nature.