No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion

In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion

Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

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.

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.