Logic is the anatomy of thought.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.

Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .