Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.

All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention - of barbarian invention - is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.

Commerce is the great civilizer.

There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

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