I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Minds differ still more than faces.

Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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.