The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."