The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

Talk what you will of the Jews,--that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why, Christians hate one another as much.

A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.