Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?