Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son; Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.