As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many other articles in the scheme of Christianity, greatly disfiguring and depraving it; I shall show, ... that it has no countenance whatever in reason, or the Scriptures; and, therefore, that the whole doctrine of atonement, with every modification of it, has been a departure from the primitive and genuine doctrine of Christianity.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine.