{In a letter to his friend Rudolf Wagner}I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not.

The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I’m struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.

When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing of reconciling many of its absurd statements with even my childish philosophy, ....

Atheism is a lack of belief…what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself.