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Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.
Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.
He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power.
With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.
Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.
One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.
Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.
To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.
Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.
I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.
Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.
If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.
The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.