I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.

He (God) reveals himself to the pure heart.

But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

I'm 100 percent clean. I'm doing this off of nuts and bananas.

No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.