Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
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 others.
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.