Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.