The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

Nothing but truth is immortal.

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, -- some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.