Prosecutions are always reserved for those who are unprotected by wealth and position.

Heresy in expensive books for the upper classes is safe, but heresy in cheap publications for the people incurs a terrible danger.

The one is flattered and conciliated, while the other is liable at any moment to be put on its defence in a criminal court, and is always at the mercy of any man who may choose to indulge his political animosity, his social enmity, or his private spite.
"Blasphemy is entirely a matter of opinion.

What is blasphemy in one country is piety in another.

Progress tends to reduce it from a crime to an affair of taste.