Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

We have now, it Seems a National Bible Society, to propagate King James's Bible, through all Nations. Would it not be better to apply these pious Subscriptions…

Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religi…

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider w…

Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.

Power of mind is infinite while brawn is limited.

I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are imposs…