Few Men Think, Yet All Will Have

[christianity] Neither Enjoins The Nastiness Of The Cynic, Nor The Insensibility Of The Stoic.

Our Youth We Can Have But To-day, We May Always Find Time To Grow Old.

That Thing Of Hell And Eternal Punishment Is The Most Absurd, As Well As The Most Disagreeable Thought That Ever Entered Into The Head Of Mortal Man.

Others Indeed May Talk, And Write, And Fight About Liberty, And Make An Outward Pretence To It But The Free-thinker Alone Is Truly Free.

Man Is An Animal, Formidable Both From His Passions And His Reason; His Passions Often Urging Him To Great Evils, And His Reason Furnishing Means To Achieve Them. To Train This Animal, And Make Him Amenable To Order; To Inure Him To A Sense Of Justice And Virtue, To Withhold Him From Ill Courses By Fear, And Encourage Him In His Duty By Hopes; In Short, To Fashion And Model Him For Society, Hath Been The Aim Of Civil And Religious Institutions; And, In All Times, The Endeavour Of Good And Wise Men. The Aptest Method For Attaining This End, Hath Been Always Judged A Proper Education.