"Don't set out to teach theism from..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Good men must not obey the laws too well.”

“What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived”

“Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.”

“The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.”

“Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.”

“It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.”

“My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles.... That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits.”

“I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.”

“Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.”