Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,
It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity,...
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting...
What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patrio...
We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon t...
There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.
He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.