The seriousness of throwing over hell whilst still clinging to the Atonement is obvious. If there is no punishment for sin there can be no self-forgiveness for it. If Christ paid our score, and if...

A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.

The only crime is pride.

Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel’s plea, ‘My forbears did the same.

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, –will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, –or...

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.