A Soul Occupied With Great Ideas Performs

Happiness Consists In The Full Employment Of Our Faculties In Some Pursuit.

Authorship Has Never Been With Me A Matter Of Choice. I Have Not Done It For Amusement, Or For Money, Or For Fame, Or For Any Reason But Because I Could Not Help It.

I Never Did A Right Thing Or Abstained From A Wrong One From Any Consideration Of Reward Or Punishment.

Religion Is A Temper, Not A Pursuit.

I Hope And Believe My Co-religionists Understand And Admit That I Disclaim Their Theology In Toto, And That By No Twisting Of Language Or Darkening Of Its Meanings Can I Be Made To Have Any Thing Whatever In Common With Them About Religious Matters... They Must Take My Word For It That There Is Nothing In Common Between Their Theology And My Philosophy.