Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

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.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

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.

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.