To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.