Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error.

If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.

Where there is no law there is no freedom.

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.