Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.