As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.
His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.
I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.
Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.
We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being.