The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of; we have neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us.

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov't.