Where Is There Dignity Unless There Is

When I Consider The Wonderful Activity Of The Mind, So Great A Memory Of What Is Past, And Such A Capacity Of Penetrating Into The Future: When I Behold Such A Number Of Arts And Sciences, And Such A Multitude Of Discoveries Hence Arising,--i Believe And Am Firmly Persuaded That A Nature Which Contains So Many Things Within Itself Cannot Be Mortal.

To Disregard What The World Thinks Of Us Is Not Only Arrogant But Utterly Shameless. [lat., Negligere Quid De Se Quisque Sentiat, Non Solum Arrogantis Est, Sed Etiam Omnino Dissoluti.]

There Is In Superstition A Senseless Fear Of God; Religion Consists In The Pious Worship Of Him.

No Wise Man Has Called A Change Of Opinion In Constancy.

We Were Born To Unite With Our Fellow Men, And To Join In Community With The Human Race.