In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

Whoever saw an angel barefooted?