The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures; as it is seen in the Turks, cruel people, who, nevertheless, are kind to beasts, and give alms to dogs and birds.

Where there is no law there is no freedom.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.