Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living things. But the interpreters of his doctrines have confounded the good and the evil principle.

What! alive, and so bold, O earth?

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

Necessity, thou mother of the world!

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.