Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
There is a pleasure in not being pleased.
Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.
To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.
It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.