Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors; and many atheistical, not for the denying of God, but for thinking somewhat peculiarly concerning him.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.