Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

These are the days that try man's heart.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.

The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.