I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable.