Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

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

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

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

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.