Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.

God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

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

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.