Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.