It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it is virtuous; and when the neglect or nonperformance of it displeases us after a like manner, we say that we lie under an obligation to perform it.

On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher faculties either of mind or body. This circumstance vanishes and becomes absolutely insignificant, on the religious theory: The one sex has an equal task to perform as the other: Their powers of reason and resolution ought also to have been equal, and both of them infinitely greater than at present.