Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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.