It Matters Infinitely Less What We Do

I Certainly Had No Idea How Little Faith Christians Have In Their Own Faith Till I Saw How Ill Their Courage And Temper Can Stand Any Attack On It.

We Are Not Responsible For Our Feelings, As We Are For Our Principles And Actions. ... Our Care, Then, Should Be To Look To Our Principles, And To Avoid All Anxiety About Our Emotions. Their Nature Can Never Be Wrong Where Our Course Of Action Is Right, And For Their Degree We Are Not Responsible.

Readers Are Plentiful; Thinkers Are Rare.

There Is No Theory Of A God, Of An Author Of Nature, Of An Origin Of The Universe, Which Is Not Utterly Repugnant To My Faculties. . .

[on Being Deaf:] We Must Struggle For Whatever May Be Had, Without Encroaching On The Comfort Of Others.