The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God.

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.