Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?