The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

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

It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.

To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.