An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they teach, and take great pride in saying that the religion of mother is good enough for them.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has blighted-of the tears it has caused-of the agony it has produced. Think of the millions who have been driven to insanity by this most terrible of dogmas. This doctrine renters God the basest and most cruel being in the universe. ... There is nothing more degrading than to worship such a god.

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.