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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.