Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.