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

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

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.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

It never seizes to amaze me how much I enjoy playing here and how much you fans have meant to me over the years.

And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got.

The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.

I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to that myself, wanting to look away.

I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.