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

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

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.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early.