There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality ….

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me..

The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts..

Liberty is the breath of progress..

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell..

And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between hu….

The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgato….

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there c….

Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that….

As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that th….

Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth..

I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved..

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not..

The way to be happy is to make others so..

As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights he begins ….

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing..

Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aris….

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud.

Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why investigate when you know? Ever….

The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you ….

An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invaria….