Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

