Only your friends steal your books.

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

A small number of choice books are sufficient.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws