Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

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

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

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.