I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

I believe because it is absurd.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.