Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert that abstruse philosophy and metaphysical jargon, which, being mixed up with popular superstition, renders it in a manner impenetrable to careless reasoners, and gives it the air of science and wisdom.

I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.

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