The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.

The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.