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

• 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.
• My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
• A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
• An honest God is the noblest work of man.
• It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
• Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
• Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
• The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
• We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
• It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.