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

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.