influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of language or darkening of its meanings can I be made to have any thing whatever in common with them about religious matters... they must take my word for it that there is nothing in common between their theology and my philosophy.

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.