In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.
Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.
Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.
I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith.
Brain without heart is far more dangerous than heart withoutbrain.
With soap baptism is a good thing.
As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish th...