Influence Which Is Given On The Side

Public Opinion, - A Tyrant, Sitting In The Dark, Wrapt Up In Mystification And Vague Terrors Of Obscurity; Deriving Power No One Knows From Whom ... - But Irresistible In Its Power To Quell Thought, To Repress Action, To Silence Conviction.

I Never Did A Right Thing Or Abstained From A Wrong One From Any Consideration Of Reward Or Punishment.

I Certainly Never Believed, More Or Less, In The "essential Doctrines" Of Christianity, Which Represent God As The Predestinator Of Men To Sin And Perdition, And Christ As Their Rescuer From That Doom. I Never Was More Or Less Behuiled By The Trickery Of Language By Which The Perdition Of Man Is Made Out To Be Justice, And His Redemption To Be Mercy.

Moral Excellence Has No Regard To Classes And Professions.

Goodness And Simplicity Are Indissolubly United.-the Bad Are The Most Sophisticated, All The World Over, And The Good The Least.