If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of no use to us.

The government of England is a government of law. We betray ourselves, we contradict the spirit of our laws, and we shake the whole system of English jurisprud…

The temple of fame is the shortest passage to riches and preferment.

An honest man, like the true religion, appeals to the understanding, or modestly confides in the internal evidence of his conscience. The imposter employes for…

Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous m…

Atheists and the unchurched undervalue the extent to which they are getting a free ride on the social strength that religious-based virtue provides.