“No man has seen God. No man has seen Lucifer. No man that I've ever talked to! It's just a useful way of looking at the world. And seeing into it. ”

“Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.”

“Everything gives way to money, and money gives way to nothing, neither to man nor to God.”

“Woman wants monogamy;Man delights in novelty.Love is woman's moon and sun;Man has other forms of fun.Woman lives but in her lord;Count to ten, and man is bored.With this the gist and sum of it,What earthly good can come of it?”

“Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.”

“The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.”

“[Christianity is] the most ... perverted system that ever shone on man.”