Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.