The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?