It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

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

So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he is quickening a false devotion almost all over the world, increasing the number of pilgrims to Mecca, multiplying the offerings to the most famous impostors, inducing men to build mosques for Mohammedan worship, causing the invention of new superstitions among the dervishes - in a word, stimulating many abominable things which otherwise might not have been.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

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

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.