Truth is but approved facts.

An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure.