What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.
An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.
History is the study of the world's crime
Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.