Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.