Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it.

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.

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

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

The choicest gift of God to man, the gift of reason; and having endeavoured to force upon himself the belief of a system against which reason revolts, he ungratefully calls it human reason; as if man could give reason to himself.

These are the times that try men's souls.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.