Man is free the moment he wants to be.

What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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.

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.