Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the m… — Lemuel K. Washburn

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. — Voltaire
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce. — Lemuel K. Washburn
If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh? — Lemuel K. Washburn
If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? — Lemuel K. Washburn