“Too many christians have been chargeable with… confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.”

I have procured air [oxygen] between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it may be reduced, are nowhere laid down, or asserted, in the Scriptures, but others quite contrary to them.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don’t think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

If you’re offended, it’s your problem.