Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.