Wrong cannot have a legal descendant.

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.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

The person who knows how to enjoy their own company knows the most important thing.

If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.

A sports bar is a way to take a bar and fill it with even more annoying people than usual.

Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.

We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.