Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition..

It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving.

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond..

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field..

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants….

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other….

We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their….

It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinit….

Nothing but truth is immortal..

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for ….

The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and on….

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter..

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation..

I have no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my reason; no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my hear….

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything..

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain..

The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' T….

The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make o….

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, ….

Intelligence is the only moral guide..

The man who finds a truth lights a torch..