Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.