The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.

I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.