The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.

Nothing but truth is immortal.

If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

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

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.