"In morality, I prefer Confucius to the ten Commandments and Socrates to St. Paul."

"God would have made his Will known without books, considering how very few could read when Jesus of Nazareth lived, had it been His pleasure to ratify any peculiar mode of worship."

"I am a citizen of the world, and I do not care for any particular country."

"I am a very bad Christian, but I believe in God."

"I hate things all fiction… there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric and pure invention is but the talent of a liar."