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

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power..

Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade..

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin..

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still..

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights a….

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?.

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime..

The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring..

I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends..

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature..

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth..

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race..

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 tha….

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers..

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves..

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization..

When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to beco….

I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other h….

Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief es….

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows..