To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.