So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.

Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.

The holy word of God is on everyone's lips...but...we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole purpose of using religion as a pretext for making others think as they do.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.