The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The things that you're liable to read in the Bible: it ain't necessarily so.

We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.