I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.