To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith at once little and ridiculous; and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air.

It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.

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

EVERY national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, their apostles and saints; and the Turks their Mahomet; as if the way to God was not open to every man alike.