The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

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

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished.

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.