No innocence can shield a man from the calumnies of the wicked. […] As a shadow follows its substance, so envy pursues goodness. It is only at the tree laden with fruit that men throw...

He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped to the dirty work of digging. He did not fear to soil his own hands....

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present...