Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.