What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.