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

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

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

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.