It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God. If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race. In my Pantheon, Pan …

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's God. Jehovah, though with us he has ac…

The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for se…

Some of those modern reformers who have placed themselves in strongest opposition to the religions of the past, have been noway behind either churches or sects…

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other