Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.