Those who have loved God most have loved men least.

ln the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

To plow is to pray; To plant is to prophesy, and the harvest answers and fulfills.

I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and the white lips of famine. How a man can withstand all that, and hold in the clutch of his greed twenty or thirty million of dollars, is past my comprehension. I do not see how he can do it. I should not think he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber on the beach, where hundreds and thousands of men were drowning in the sea.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.

It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men – nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian – like a doctor of divinity.

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.