The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the eternal laws and obligations of morality are to the conscience. It should be unalterable by any human power.

Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book.