The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is.

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

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.