God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.