What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

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.

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

It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has done to a considerable degree in all ages As civilization extended, they by one means or another became most wonderfully dispersed through all countries; and at this day they are almost literally everywhere, the most conspicuous, and in the eye of reason and religion, the most respectable nation on the face of the earth.

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.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.