Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.