Occupation: Lawyer Birth: August 11, 1833 Death: July 21, 1899
Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself..
If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax..
With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night..
Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's history when that torch was ….
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlas….
It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would control acti….
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers..
Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy, or proposed to worship any other G….
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume o….
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sinc….
The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved - cursed, not worshiped. ….
Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure and vague. The hunger of the….
Meekness is the mask of malice..
I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote..
Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But th….
To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself..
The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been satisfied. He no longer cares for the….
Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music..
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power..
Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade..
Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin..