Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.