Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

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.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

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.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

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 the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

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.

You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

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.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.