When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.

But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.

I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.