Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

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

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.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.