I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.
Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day
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.