Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

So much wrong could religion induce.

If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present.

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.