Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

All life is an experiment.

We may be partial, but Fate is not.

We change whether we like it or not.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men. That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in its eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.