The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the hear….

Courage without conscience is a wild beast..

Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the modesty born of the imper….

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors..

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not..

When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; th….

It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed..

According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two ….

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift..

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost..

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our w….

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts a….

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market wa….

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin..

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong..

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man..

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future..

Today the intelligence of the world denies the miraculous. Ignorance is the soil of the supernatural. The foundation of Christianity has crumbled, ha….

A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to c….

Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the child of invention, of discovery, of….

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it..