Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamat...ion is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things ar...e. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the "Monied Interest;" I mean, that blood-su...cker, that muckworm, that calls itself "the friend of government."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »