A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it. That which may be thought right and found convenient in one age, may be thought wrong and found inconvenient in another. In such cases, who is to decide, the living, or the dead?

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.