I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

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

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.