If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.

The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

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

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.