To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
Change everything except your loves.
What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.
We must cultivate our own garden.
We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.