Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.