There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. Bradley
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
Claude M. Bristol
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
Hypatia
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. Mencken
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
John Lothrop Motley