Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.

The problem with common sense is, it isn't.

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?