The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success..

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind..

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know..

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth..

No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man has a right to desert his children if he can possibly be….

The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful..

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease..

All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of ….

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it..

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, an….

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to gove….

I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, agree that they would teac….

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because br….

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony..

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness..

If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eterni….

Hope is the consolation of the world..

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing..

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing..

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul..

We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent ….