Replace the Church with schools of moral, mental and physical culture and the world will pro& thereby.

As the swindler first creates a feeling of faith in his intended victim, so religion demands faith in its followers.

Of what good are you if you gain the produce of the whole world and breed ten thousand criminal descendants.

There are many men in this world who call it work to figure how they can secure the results of others' labor.

If you have knowledge, offer it to others; if they do not accept it, that is their loss.

Do not fill your head so full of other people's ideas that there is no room left for your own.

Point out the defects of him who is present; praise the good qualities of him who is absent.

Those who ride upon the backs of others must in turn carry others upon their own backs.

The Bible not only proves its own absurdities, but any others that the human mind can conceive.

Parents should mould their children's character before they are born, by their own thoughts and actions.

Your ancestors are responsible for the weaknesses you inherit, but you are responsible for non-improvement.

Marrying for money or position without mutual love is but one way to breed and preserve the germs of prost.i.tution.

It is not only the selfishness of the strong that robs the weak, but also the selfishness of the weak that keeps them so.

If nature has blessed you with superior ability and you do not use it to benefit mankind, then you have betrayed nature's trust.

The laborer furnishes the capitalist with money, houses, clothes, eatables, service and then the weapons and power to keep him enslaved.

If you have not improved your condition physically, mentally and morally over that of your parents, your life has been a failure.

Religion is a great cudgel held threateningly by the strong over the heads of the weak to keep them in a state of ignorance and slavery.

If the soul were born with the body, then it must die with it; but if the soul live afterward, then it must have lived before the body was born.

The learned man is sometimes wise; the wise man is not always learned.

The wise man produces good thoughts direct from nature; the learned man acquires them afterward.