The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.

Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.