Commerce is the great civilizer.
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.
Meekness is the mask of malice.
Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed.