Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.
Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.
Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.