Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul..

Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the heart of a wild beast, can beli….

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race..

The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor….

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who h….

When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every d….

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will..

For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockhold….

It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, i….

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this..

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings soci….

The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted..

I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with….

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down..

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity..

The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes ….

Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it..

Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and ….

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right ….

Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will; ….

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense..