The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.