In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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

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

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

Happiness is a good that nature sells us.