"My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to…"

"I speak a language full and intelligible. I deal not in hints and intimations. [...] First, that I may be clearly und…"

"I have always strenuously supported the Right of every Man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might b…"

"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never s…"

"I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe the equality of man, and I be…"

"It is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in beli…"

"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. …"

"Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication. After this, it is only an account of something which th…"

"When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous."

"It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on."