Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.