He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

Nature has always had more force than education.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.