I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion however different that opinion might be to mine He who denies to another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion because he precludes himself the right of changing it
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen in our time nature go out of her course But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law
