The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even a priest cannot deny; and show, from that evidence, that the Bible is not entitled to credit, as being the word of God.