Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement

The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker

Everything in the world is purchased by labor

The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one