Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.