Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.