A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Ma Baxter rocked complacently. They were all pleased whenever she made a joke. Her good nature made the same difference in the house as the hearth-fire had made in the chill of the evening.

I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.

If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system.

Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.

A good bassist determines the direction of any band.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.