But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.

When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Only the bad man is alone.