“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”

“The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.”

“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence”

“A society without religion is like a vessel without compass”

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse”