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

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

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

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

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

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