God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind.

The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.

These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one as well as the other, be solid and satisfactory, and that reason and sentiment concur in almost all moral determinations and conclusions.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.