The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity

The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described One who wished to preserve Judaism one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

Read it as you would any other book think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes drive from your heart the phantom of fear push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows

There is no slavery but ignorance

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.