Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.