"Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth."

"He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."

"Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist."

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order."

"True knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"It is a profound truth that reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."