This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer or maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.