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.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

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