An honest God is the noblest work of man.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear of death. About the grave, there will be no terrors, and his life will end as serenely as the sun rises.

We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.