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

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

The conceptions which any nation or individual entertains of the God of its popular worship may be inferred from their own actions and opinions, which are the subjects of their approbation among their fellow-men.

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

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

There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...