Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.

Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but after all, it was but a caravansary which supplied refreshment to the traveler, and directed him farther on his way to Isphahan or Bagdat. Thank God, no Hindoo tyranny prevailed at the framing of the world, but we are freemen of the universe, and not sentenced to any caste.

Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?