“Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.”

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

“If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.”

“Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.”

“All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.”

“Without books, I would certainly die.”

“[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.”