“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.