"We derive our authority from God and the West India Company, not from the pleasure of a few ignorant subjects."

"I think that the court has misapplied a great constitutional principle. I cannot see how 'official religion…"

"All wish to live in the nearness of God, but only the Hindus bring it to pass."

"You have no alternative, and if you wish to live in honor, then this can be accomplished only by returning …"

"This vast number of worlds, the enormous scale of the universe... has not been taken into account, even sup…"

"Destiny or gods or fortune—whatever one is pleased or innocent enough to call them—they seal men to their d…"

"If religion was the opium of the masses, then communism was the methamphetamine of the masses."