Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.