Fidelity To Conscience Is Inconsistent With Retiring

My Own Feeling Of Concern Arises From Seeing How Much Moral Injury And Suffering Is Created By The Superstitions Of The Christian Mythology.

There Is No Theory Of A God, Of An Author Of Nature, Of An Origin Of The Universe, Which Is Not Utterly Repugnant To My Faculties. . .

When Once Experience Taught Me That I Could Work When I Chose, And Within A Quarter Of An Hour Of My Determining To Do So, I Was Relieved, In A Great Measure, From Those Embarrassments And Depressions Which I See Afflicting Many An Author Who Waits For A Mood Instead Of Summoning It, And Is The Sport, Instead Of The Master, Of His Own Impressions And Ideas.

We Do Not Believe In Immortality Because We Can't Prove It, But We Try To Prove It Because We Cannot Help Believing It.

The Systematic Abuse With Which The Newspapers Of One Side Assail Every Candidate Coming Forward On The Other, Is The Cause Of Many Honorable Men, Who Have A Regard To Their Reputation, Being Deterred From Entering Public Life; And Of The People Being Thus Deprived Of Some Better Servants Than Any They Have.