I Am Mortified To Be Told That,

The Religion-builders Have So Distorted And Deformed The Doctrines Of Jesus, So Muffled Them In Mysticism, Fancies, And Falsehoods.

A Professorship Of Theology Should Have No Place In Our Institution [the University Of Virginia]

He Who Receives An Idea From Me, Receives Instruction Himself Without Lessening Mine; As He Who Lights His Taper At Mine, Receives Light Without Darkening Me.

It Does Me No Injury For My Neighbor To Say There Are Twenty Gods Or No God.

You See I Am An Enthusiast On The Subject Of The Arts.