Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Look into the world--how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compassionate have a title to wear.

Chance is the providence of adventurers.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.