Philosophy And The Arts Are But A

Work! Work! That Is My Unfailing Cure For All Troubles.

So Easy It Is To See The Errors Of Past Ages, So Difficult To Acknowledge Our Own!

Even If Nothing Worse Than Wasted Mental Effort Could Be Laid To The Charge Of Theology, That Alone Ought To Be Sufficient To Banish It From The Earth ... What A Vast Amount Of Labour And Learning Has Been Expended, As Uselessly As Emptying Shallow Puddles Into Sieves! How Much Intellect Has Been Employed Mousing After Texts, To Sustain Preconceived Doctrines!

In The First Place, The Government Ought Not To Be Invested With Power To Control The Affections, Any More Than The Consciences Of Citizens. A Man Has At Least As Good A Right To Choose His Wife, As He Has To Choose His Religion. His Taste May Not Suit His Neighbors; But So Long As His Deportment Is Correct, They Have No Right To Interfere With His Concerns.

The Boughs Of No Two Trees Ever Have The Same Arrangement. Nature Always Produces Individuals; She Never Produces Classes.