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

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.