The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men, not to serve others, but themselves; and they try all things only to hold fast that which is bad.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

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

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.