Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

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

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.