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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.

Joseph Addison

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

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

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.