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

Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.