"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts."

"It is a very remarkable thing, that the very things which are most necessary are the very things that are most neglected."

"I have a great contempt for all forms of religious bigotry."

"I am not a very religious man, in the common acceptation of the term."

"I have no patience with people who are always complaining about everything."