Top Highlights

• To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
• While moral rules may be propounded by authority, the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
• There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer.  For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
• Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body,
• It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.