[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible. - John Stuart Mill

The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known.

One person with a belief is equal to the foce of 100,000 who have only interests.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. [...] To say that one persons desires and feelings are stronger and more various than those of another, is merely to say that he has more of the raw material of human nature, and is therefore capable, perhaps of more evil, but certainly of more good.