The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make the acquisition of knowledge a real sin.

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.