Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

For we put the power in the people.

No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences