"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

"Christ came to save men, but a good Pagan will go to heaven and a bad Nazarene to hell. If mankind who never heard or dreamt of Galilee and its Prophet may be saved, Christianity is of no avail."

"If people are to live, why die? And are our carcasses worth raising? I hope, if mine is, I shall have a better pair of legs than I have moved on these two-and-twenty years, or I shall be sadly behind …"

"I am a very philosophical man, and I ponder the meaning of life and death."

"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."