O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.

We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being.

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward. Not only Jesus Christ, but the most eminent professors of every sect of philosophy, have reasoned against this futile superstition.