Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.