When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

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

Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.