Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the re…

Bob de Graff, who started Pocket Books, had a patent on a non-re-readable book, bound like a sealed memo pad, from which you would tear each page after you'd r…

Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lu…

Great God, and you witnesses of my death, I have lived as a philosopher, and I die as a Christian.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.