All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.