The greatest remedy for anger is delay. - Thomas Paine

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

Another set of preachers tells their congregations that God predestinated and selected from all eternity, a certain number to be saved. And a certain number to be damned eternally. If this were true, the day of Judgment is past; their preaching is in vain, and they had better work at some useful calling for their livelihood.

The story of Christ has not one trait, either in its character, or in the means employed, that bears the least resemblance to the power and wisdom of God, as demonstrated in the creation of the universe. All the means are human means, slow, uncertain, and inadequate to the accomplishment of the end proposed; and therefore the whole is a fabulous invention, and undeserving of credit.