A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

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.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.

The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments and opinions may be often reverberated, and may decay away by insensible degrees.