Death is only perfect rest.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

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

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.

Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.