Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.

The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich; I hold in contempt no man because he is poor.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

There is no slavery but ignorance.