Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.
Commerce is the great civilizer.
They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .