Note next this, from Kant:

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They
are the perfecting of ourselves, and the happiness of others.

I do not know a Bible sentence so purely moral as that. And in what
part of the Bible shall we find a parallel to the following sentence,
from an Agnostic newspaper:

Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of action are
helps to the children of men in their search for wisdom.

Tom Paine left Moses and Isaiah centuries behind when he wrote:

The world is my country: to do good my religion.

Robert Ingersoll, another "Infidel," surpassed Solomon when he said:

The object of life is to be happy, the place to be happy is
here, the time to be happy is now, the way to be happy is by
making others happy.

Which simple sentence contains more wisdom than all the pessimism of
the King of kings. And again, Ingersoll went beyond the sociological
conception of the Prophets when he wrote:

And let us do away for ever with the idea that the care of the
sick, of the helpless, is a charity. It is not a charity: it
is a duty. It is something to be done for our own sakes. It
is no more a charity than it is to pave or light the streets,