"As an American woman I enshrine with gratitude the memory of the philosopher, poet, counselor, historian, moralist, statesman and liberator--the immortal Thomas Paine." J. Atwood Culbertson: "Whether his remains now lie wrapped in the immaculate shroud of winter snow, or, hid beneath earth's coverlet of green, feed to fragrance the springtime flowers, kissed to life by April sun; or whether his dust imparts the gold to the summer's grain, or lends the tint to the autumn leaf, we do not know, we cannot say; but immortal is the name of Thomas Paine." Charles Watts: "Not of one age, but for all time." William Thurston Brown: "Thomas Paine belongs to the ages--not because he was Thomas Paine, but because the light which illumined his mind and the principles which motived his life are the noblest and richest blossoms the tree of human life can bear. Toward the heights he climbed leads every upward road that the fearless feet of seekers after truth in this or any age have trod." "The purpose of his life, unequaled in purity, beneficence and grandeur of hope, 'lives and ever will live in the republics he invented, inspired and organized, and in the Religion of Humanity upon which they rest."--_T. B. Wakeman_. "These words [Religion of Humanity] have blessed every religion. These three magic words, first uttered by Paine, will work on and on forever."--Ibid. Harry Weir Boland: "His heart the world embracing He served our sorest need, His mind his church displacing, Humanity his creed. Humanity his creed, Truth follows in his train, And of all those names the fairest Is that of Thomas Paine." Mrs. Mattie Parry Krekel: "Let us all, then, lay the trifle of a word, a thought, a tear on the altar of the memory of him who will be one of the pillars of that coming church where all men's hands shall be clasped in the beautiful light of the sun of truth; the church which shall give us one Father--Nature, and one brotherhood--the whole wide world." "I for one here cheerfully, reverently, throw my pebble on the cairn of his memory."--_Walt Whitman._ Napoleon Bonaparte: "A statue of gold ought to be erected to you in every city in the universe." Andrew Jackson: "Thomas Paine needs no monument made by hands; he has erected himself a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty." J. P. Bland, B.D.: "Thomas Paine needs no marble to perpetuate his name, needs no granite to preserve his fame; for scattered through the whole wide world he has to-day a million living monuments, the harbingers of millions yet to come, and who, till time shall be no more, will bow the head in reverence and lift the heart in praise of him who so gloriously stood for reason and for right."