The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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?

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

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.