It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind, are transported from one part of the heavens to another by virtue of the general laws of motion.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.