Germany, the diseased world’s bathhouse.
Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there’s scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
You take the lies out of him, and he’ll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he’ll disappear.
Irrevence is another person’s disrespect to your god; there isn’t any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement.
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned.
I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.
Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion.
If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.
In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
Dying man couldn’t make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!
Well, no doubt it’s a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
Is a person’s public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.
One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.