To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding.