A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

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

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

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