Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith!

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Meekness is the mask of malice.

He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great-nothing for the prejudices of the many and least of all for the superstitions of the dead.